[Info-vax] A cry for help

[Scott Dorsey]

Henry Crun  <mike at rechtman.com> wrote:
>The Thunderbird filter can be set on c.o.v. specifically, and does not affect email
>(or even other NNTP groups)
>So if a legitimate poster is posting from gmail to c.o.v. I'll miss it. I can live with that.

There is no such thing as "posting from gmail."

The original poster was talking about filtering on the From: line.  So if
a user is posting from a legitimate non-google server, but using a gmail 
email address for return, then their message will be dropped.  This is not
good behaviour.  Many people use gmail, and it is not the source of the
spam problem.

The correct solution is to filter on the Message-ID line or the User-Agent
field so that only postings from google groups are rejected.
--scott
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